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Celebrity Couples Who Waited to Have Kids

The
second a star is spotted with a ring on her finger, let the bump watch begin.
Look no further than the Duchess of Cambridge and her royal hubby Prince
William — if Kate so much as passed on peanuts, the rumors started flying. But
while it may have seemed like it took this regal pair ages to add to the
monarchy, Kate and Wills wed in April 2011. So they were just a little over a
year into marriage when they made the pregnancy announcement heard around the
world. And some couples in the spotlight relished their honeymoon years even
longer than that before taking the parenting plunge. Even in a
marriage-every-minute Hollywood, the duos in this slideshow took their time to
start their families.

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Beyonce and Jay-Z

Since
these two are practically the Wills and Kate of hip hop, all eyes were on Bey
and Jay to collaborate on a family. But after the couple, who started dating in
2002, made it official, the "Bootylicious" singer made it apparent she wasn't
ready for a baby belly right away. Though some may have speculated Beyoncé and
Jay-Z would wait four years to become parents (it's their lucky number — for
example, they wed April 4, 2008), this divalicious mama made her memorable pregnancy announcement at the VMAs in
August 2011, meaning it took around three years for baby Blue Ivy to join the
family.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Sarah
Michelle also married a prince — well, a Prinze — but she waited much longer
than the Duke and Duchess to welcome an heir. The actors' first child together,
a daughter named Charlotte, arrived in September 2009 — just a few weeks after
their seventh wedding anniversary! The pair also took their time to add another
to their brood. Their baby boy, Rocky, joined the family a few years later in
their lucky month: He was born in September 2012.

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Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof

Sarah
Michelle's Buffy costars stayed on
the same page when it came to parenting — after getting married in 2003, Alyson
and Alexis waited a while to become parents. The How I Met Your Mother actress finally became a mother herself
nearly six years after her wedding, with her daughter, Satyana, making her
debut in March 2009. Not only does Saty share a birth year with Buffy's baby,
she also shares a birthday with mommy Alyson! And believe it or not, the
Denisofs also waited three years to add to their family. Another daughter,
Keeva, joined the brood in May 2012 (here she is with the fam on her first
Halloween!).

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Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy

It didn't take Claire long to kick start her career — she became a small-screen
darling at the age of 15 on My So-Called
Life — but she did slowly ease her way into a parenting role. After
costarring in 2007's Evening, this
cute couple quietly tied the knot in September 2009 with a ceremony in France.
But unlike most hush-hush Hollywood weddings, there wasn't a baby bump under
wraps. Claire didn't announce she was pregnant until nearly three years later, and she certainly didn't hide her blossoming belly when she earned an Emmy while expecting and thanked her "baby daddy" in her speech. The star welcomed baby boy, Cyrus Michael Christopher, in December 2012.

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Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond

While
her shameless 30 Rock alter-ego, Liz
Lemon, waited until the show's last season to walk down the aisle (her faux
save-the-date card read, "She's 42. Whatever. No big whoop"), Tina certainly wasn't over the hill when she wed — or even when she became a mom. The
funny woman made it official with her composer/producer beau, Jeff Richmond, in
2001 after a seven-year courtship. While the two didn't take quite that long to add to their family, their
first daughter, Alice, did arrive four years later in September 2005 (Tina was
35 at the time). While this busy mama's maternity leave was sadly super short — just 43 days! — there were several more gap years until Alice became a big
sister. Tina became a mom twice over in 2011 with the birth of another girl,
Penelope.

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

SJP
may have played the consummate single girl on Sex and the City, but she was actually married when she took on the
now iconic role of Carrie Bradshaw. She and 80s icon Matthew Broderick became
husband and wife in 1997, a year before the HBO series even aired. But it took
until the fifth season for Sarah Jessica to become a mom — off screen, that is
(did you even notice her baby bump on TV?). The Brodericks' first baby, James Wilkie, came
on the scene in October 2002. Seven years later, little twin sisters, Tabitha
and Loretta, followed with the help of a surrogate.

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Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale

Believe
it or not, this rocker chick dreamed about being a mama well before becoming
famous even crossed her mind. In an interview with the Washington Post, she revealed, "All I wanted to ever do was get
married and have babies, have a house. So it's weird that I'm in a rock group."
And her dream came true — but all in due time. Well after Gwen became a
household name with "Don't Speak," she wed longtime love Gavin Rossdale in
2002. While the singer scratched many milestones off her to-do list over the
following few years, including launching a fashion line and starting a solo
career, it wasn't until 2006 that she took on parenthood. The Rossdales' first
child together, Kingston, came into the world that spring. Bitten by the baby
bug, Gwen and Gavin didn't really hesitate to add another: Little brother, Zuma,
was born just two years later.

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